“You can say Laili is
pagal [mad] but he’s that type of person,” says musician and producer Usman WithD from his studio in Quetta. “Laili is a malang [dervish], he’s in love.”
Usman, the founder of the Quetta-based multi-artist music outfit Banur’s Band, is talking about his platform’s latest release, Laili . A song that comes as a breath of fresh air in a scene currently dominated by repetitive angsty rap and retro-pop and rock music. Laili is an upbeat, folk-pop song that puts on a full display of a variety of traditional Baloch instruments and marries the Baloch music and lyrics with a section in Urdu, presumably to make the song a little more palatable to mainstream audiences. Even if they hadn’t, Laili would’ve worked its catchy magic on audiences anyway.
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Dallas chef Jimmy Park is opening a sushi restaurant on Greenville Avenue in Dallas in 2021.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
After a tumultuous 2020, Dallas diners seem hungry for hope. Luckily and amazingly the future of our dining scene appears as vibrant as ever.
2021 will bring a delicious bite of nostalgia to the pie-shaped building at Commerce and Cesar Chavez Boulevard in Dallas. Restaurateur Nick Badovinus (Town Hearth, Neighborhood Services) is fascinated with the 100-year-old structure, which opened as a service station in the 1920s. It was home to KLIF-AM radio in the ‘60s and ‘70s. And in 2021, it’ll become National Anthem, a 10,000-square-foot restaurant with a rock ‘n’ roll identity.
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The View from Within: An Introduction to New Afghan Literature
In a discussion at the House of Culture in Stockholm just over a week ago, the Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi, having summarized the last three decades of Afghan history, concluded laconically that the present state was: “
un chaos total” a total chaos. Rahimi is far from alone in his assessment, but he is unusual in that he speaks to the situation as an Afghan, rather than an outside observer. It is the “chaos” this issue has tried to put in words this time voiced from within.
From
within I say, and this is important. Much of what is said and written about Afghanistan in the West today is still tainted by an outside perspective on the situation a narrative that keeps repeating and reformulating earlier misconceptions and generalizations. With regard to the ongoing conflict, it is completely incomprehensible to me, even as a layman in the field, that policy-makers on Afghanistan have failed so utterly in underst